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Annie John
by Jamaica Kincaid

ISBN 0374525102 (0-374-52510-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Jamaica Kincaid beautifully delineates hatred and fear, because she knows they are often a step away from love and obsession. At the start of Annie John, her 10-year-old heroine is engulfed in family happiness and safety. Though Annie loves her father, she is all eyes for her mother. When she is almost 12, however, the idyll ends and she falls into deep disfavor. This inexplicable loss mars both lives, as each grows adept at public falsity and silent betrayal. The pattern is set, and extended: "And now I started a new series of betrayals of people and things I would have sworn only minutes before to die for." In front of Annie's father and the world, "We were politeness and kindness and love and laughter." Alone they are linked in loathing. Annie tries to imagine herself as someone in a book--an orphan or a girl with a wicked stepmother. The trouble is, she finds, those characters' lives always end happily. Luckily for us, though not perhaps for her alter ego, Kincaid is too truthful a writer to provide such a finale. [via]
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
by C. L. R. James

ISBN 0679724672 (0-679-72467-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Breath, Eyes, Memory
by Edwidge Danticat

ISBN 1569471428 (1-56947-142-8)
Hardcover, Soho Press, Incorporated

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Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1998: "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to." The place is Haiti and the speaker is Sophie, the heroine of Edwidge Danticat's novel, "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Like her protagonist, Danticat is also Haitian; like her, she was raised in Haiti by an aunt until she came to the United States at age 12. Indeed, in her short stories, Danticat has often drawn on her background to fund her fiction, and she continues to do so in her debut novel.
The story begins in Haiti, on Mother's Day, when young Sophie discovers that she is about to leave the only home she has ever known with her Tante Atie in Croix-des-Rosets, Haiti, to go live with her mother in New York City. These early chapters in Haiti are lovely, subtly evoking the tender, painful relationship between the motherless child and the childless woman who feels honor bound to guard the natural mother's rights to the girl's affections above her own. Presented with a Mother's Day card, Tante Atie responds: "'It is for a mother, your mother.' She motioned me away with a wave of her hand. 'When it is Aunt's Day, you can make me one.'" Danticat also uses these pages to limn a vibrant portrait of life in Haiti from the cups of ginger tea and baskets of cassava bread served at community potlucks to the folk tales of a "people in Guinea who carry the sky on their heads."
With Sophie's transition from a fairly happy existence with her aunt and grandmother in rural Haiti to life in New York with a mother she has never seen, Danticat's roots as a short-story writer become more evident; "Breath, Eyes, Memory" begins to read more like a collection of connected stories than a seamlessly evolved novel. In a couple of short chapters, Sophie arrives in New York, meets her mother, makes the acquaintance of her mother's new boyfriend, Marc, and discovers that she was the product of a rape when her mother was a teenager in Haiti. The novel then jumps several years ahead to Sophie's graduation from high school and her infatuation with an older man who lives next door. Unfortunately, this is also the point in the novel where Danticat begins to lay her themes on with a trowel instead of a brush: Sophie's mother becomes obsessed with protecting her daughter's virginity, going so far as to administer physical "tests" on a regular basis--testing which leads eventually to a rift in their relationship and to Sophie's struggle with her own sexuality. Soon the litany of victimization is flying thick and fast: female genital mutilation, incest, rape, frigidity, breast cancer, and abortion are the issues that arise in the final third of the novel, eventually drowning both fine writing and perceptive characterization under a deluge of angst.
Still, there is much to admire about "Breath, Eyes, Memory," and if at times the plot becomes overheated, Danticat's lyrical, vivid prose offers some real delight. If nothing else, this novel is sure to entice readers to look for Danticat's short stories--and possibly to sample other fiction from the West Indies as well. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Brown Girl in the Ring
by Nalo Hopkinson

ISBN 0446674338 (0-446-67433-8)
Softcover, Aspect

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This is Nalo Hopkinson's debut novel, which came to attention when it won the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. It tells the story of Ti-Jeanne, a young woman in a near-future Toronto that's been all but abandoned by the Canadian government. Anyone who can has retreated from the chaos of the city to the relative safety of the suburbs, and those left in "the burn" must fend for themselves. Ti-Jeanne is a new mother who's trying to come to grips with her as- yet-unnamed baby and also trying to end her relationship with her drug-addict boyfriend Tony. But a passion still burns between the young lovers, and when Tony runs afoul of Rudy, the local ganglord, Ti-Jeanne convinces her grandmother Gros-Jeanne to help out. Gros-Jeanne is a Voudoun priestess, and it's clear that Ti-Jeanne has inherited some of her gifts. Although Ti-Jeanne wants nothing to do with the spirit world, she soon finds herself caught up in a battle to the death with Rudy and the mother she thought she lost long ago. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Caribbean
by James A. Michener

ISBN 0449217493 (0-449-21749-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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"A grand epic."
THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
Master storyteller James A. Michener sweeps us off to the Caribbean,with a magnificent novel that captures the eternal allure of that glittering string of islands and their tumultuous history. Beginning in 1310 and continuing through Columbus's arrival and the bloody slave revolt of Haiti to the rise of Castro, CARIBBEAN carries us through 700 dramatic years in a tale teeming with revolution and romance, slavery and superstition, heartfelt characters and thunderous destinies.
A Dual Main Slection of the Book-of-the-Month Club

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The Caribbean, the Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism
by Franklin W. Knight

ISBN 0195054415 (0-19-505441-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat

ISBN 1400034299 (1-4000-3429-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a dew breakera torturera man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.

We meet him late in his life. He is a quiet man, a husband and father, a hardworking barber, a kindly landlord to the men who live in a basement apartment in his home. He is a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, recognizable by the terrifying scar on his face. As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New York City today, we enter the lives of those around him: his devoted wife and rebellious daughter; his sometimes unsuspecting, sometimes apprehensive neighbors, tenants, and clients. And we meet some of his victims.

In the books powerful denouement, we return to the Haiti of the dew breakers past, to his last, desperate act of violence, and to his first encounter with the woman who will offer him a form of redemptionalbeit imperfectthat will change him forever.
The Dew Breaker is a book of interconnected livesa book of love, remorse, and hope; of rebellions both personal and political; of the compromises we often make in order to move beyond the most intimate brushes with history. Unforgettable, deeply resonant, The Dew Breaker proves once more that in Edwidge Danticat we have a major American writer. [via]
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  Hardcover, Random House Inc
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An Embarrassment Of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude
by Ann Vanderhoof

ISBN 0767914279 (0-7679-1427-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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The Farming of Bones
by Edwidge Danticat

ISBN 1569471266 (1-56947-126-6)
Hardcover, Soho Press, Incorporated

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In a 1930s Dominican Republic village, the scream of a woman in labor rings out like the shot heard around Hispaniola. Every detail of the birth scene--the balance of power between the middle-aged Señora and her Haitian maid, the babies' skin color, not to mention which child is to survive--reverberates throughout Edwidge Danticat's Farming of Bones. In fact, rather than a celebration of fecundity, the unexpected double delivery gels into a metaphor for the military-sponsored mass murder of Haitian emigrants. As the Señora's doctor explains: "Many of us start out as twins in the belly and do away with the other."
But Danticat's powerful second novel is far from a currently modish victimization saga, and can hold its own with such modern classics as One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Color Purple. Its watchful narrator, the Señora's shy Haitian housemaid, describes herself as "one of those sea stones that sucks its colors inside and loses its translucence once it's taken out into the sun." An astute observer of human character, Amabelle Désir is also a conduit for the author's tart, poetic prose. Her lover, Sebastian, has "arms as wide as one of my bare thighs," while the Señora's complicit officer husband is "still shorter than the average man, even in his military boots."
The orphaned Amabelle comes to assume almost messianic proportions, but she is entirely fictional, as is the town of Alegría where the tale begins. The genocide and exodus, however, are factual. Indeed, the atrocities committed by Dominican president Rafael Trujillo's army back in 1937 rival those of Duvalier's Touton Macoutes. History has rendered Trujillo's carnage much less visible than Duvalier's, but no less painful. As Amabelle's father once told her, "Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of." Thanks to Danticat's stellar novel, the world will now know. --Jean Lenihan [via]
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Flowering Shrubs
by James Underwood Crockett

ISBN 0316848158 (0-316-84815-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co

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1937, and Haitian Amabelle is a maid for a wealthy family in the Dominican Republic. When her boss accidentally kills a Haitian in a car accident, a systematic round-up follows - ostensibly for repatriation but in fact a prelude to slaughter. Returning to Haiti, Amabelle is haunted by guilt. [via]
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From Colombus to Castro
by E. Williams

ISBN 0233976566 (0-233-97656-6)
Softcover, Andre Deutsch

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From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969
by Eric Williams

ISBN 0394715020 (0-394-71502-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands -- Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others-separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage. For whether French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, or-latterly-American, the nationality of their masters has made only a notional difference to the peoples of the Caribbean. The history of the Caribbean is dominated by the history of sugar, which is inseparable from the history of slavery; which was inseparable, until recently, from the systematic degradation of labor in the region. Here, for the first time, is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world. [via]
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Guerrillas
by V.S. Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

ISBN 0679731741 (0-679-73174-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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A novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence. [via]
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A House for Mr. Biswas
by V.S. Naipaul

ISBN 0375707166 (0-375-70716-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

The book that turned the gentle satirist of the Caribbean into a major literary figure, this is the story of a man who, without a single asset, enters a life devoid of opportunity; his tumble-down house becomes a potent symbol of the search for identity in a postcolonial world. His most widely read novel. [via]
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Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
by Carl Plasa, Nicolas Tredell

ISBN 184046268X (1-84046-268-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan

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In this Reader's Guide, Carl Plasa provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the most stimulating critical responses to Wide Sargasso Sea. The opening chapter outlines initial reactions to the novel from English and Caribbean critics, charting the differences between them. Chapter Two explores Wide Sargasso Sea 's dialogue with Jane Eyre and the theoretical questions it has raised. Succeeding chapters examine how critics have assessed the racial politics of Rhys's text, discuss the novel's African Caribbean cultural legacy, and explore how critics read the work both in terms of its moment of production and the early Victorian period in which it is set.
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Krik? Krak!
by Edwidge Danticat

ISBN 1569470251 (1-56947-025-1)
Hardcover, Soho Press, Incorporated

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LA Isla Del Tesoro / Treasure Island
by Lewis Stevenson

ISBN 9583007455 (958-30-0745-5)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc

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Book in Spanish [via]
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Midnight Robber
by Nalo Hopkinson

ISBN 0446675601 (0-446-67560-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing

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Nalo Hopkinson's first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, was selected from almost 1,000 entries to win Warner Aspect's First Novel Contest, and after publication it received the Locus Award for Best First Novel and was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. So expectations have been pretty high for her second book, and Midnight Robber lives up to them; it's a beautifully written, innovative, demanding, and wonderful novel.
On the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint, Carnival is a Lollapalooza of music and dance, a Mardi Gras, a masquerade; and the Robin Hood of Toussaint legend, the Robber Queen, is just another costume, Tan-Tan's favorite. Then Tan-Tan's corrupt politician father commits a crime that sends them into exile on the extradimensional planet New Half-Way Tree, Toussaint's untamed quantum twin. As she struggles to survive the violent criminals, mysterious aliens, and merciless jungles of New Half-Way Tree, Tan-Tan finds herself taking on--or being taken over by--the mythic persona and powers of the Robber Queen. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Miguel Street
by V.S. Naipaul

ISBN 0375713875 (0-375-71387-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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A magnet to the poets, philosophers, teachers, troubadours and misfits who people the town of Port of Spain, Miguel Street is a place where tales of glory and debauchery vie with declarations of love and anger, where neighbourhood dramas are scrutinized and wisdom doled out to one and all. [via]
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder

ISBN 0375506160 (0-375-50616-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder

ISBN 0812973011 (0-8129-7301-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine , House , Among Schoolchildren , and Home Town . He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the "master of the non-fiction narrative." This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life's calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent book shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can be created, as Farmer-brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti-blasts through convention to get results. Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that "the only real nation is humanity" - a philosophy that is embodied in the small public charity he founded, Partners In Health. He enlists the help of the Gates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.'s World Health Organization, and others in his quest to cure the world. At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb "Beyond mountains there are mountains": as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too. [via]
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Omeros
by Derek Walcott

ISBN 0374523509 (0-374-52350-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Creating an epic poem based on Homer and Odysseus seems a risky proposition for a modern poet, but Derek Walcott accomplishes the feat with stunning results in Omeros. The title, which is Homer's name in Greek, nods to the wandering and exile of the great poet himself, who learned and suffered while traveling. From there, Walcott takes off to "see the cities of many men and to know their minds." After an exhilarating exploration of tremendous proportions, we learn of the past and the present and ride along the rhythm of the words of Walcott in this amazing text. [via]
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A Salty Piece of Land
by Jimmy Buffett

ISBN 031601429X (0-316-01429-X)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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Handle: The #1 bestseller Jimmy Buffett flies back into view with a delectable new collection of tales from his carefree and adventurous world. Description: The beloved traveler/troubadour offers up a plate of stories--some real, some imagined, some where it's impossible to say--from his world of seaplanes, tropical isles, and wayward adventures. A Salty Piece of Land is a rollicking story collection that belongs as much on a bookshelf as it does atop the liquor cabinet. It has been five years since Jimmy's last book, and fans of his previous bestsellers, A Pirate Looks at Fifty, Where's Joe Merchant, and Tales From Margaritaville--not to mention the millions of fans of his songs and concerts--are sure to flock to his newest hit. This fall, as the temperatures drop and the sun gets scarce, A Salty Piece of Land is going to be the book that takes readers away from the snowdrifts and to a warm beach, cold beer, and some of the wildest characters ever to dip their toe in the ocean. This irresistible collection will be the next in an impressive line of bestsellers for the inimitable Jimmy Buffett. [via]
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Small Island
by Andrea Levy

ISBN 0312424671 (0-312-42467-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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Andrea Levy's award-winning novel, Small Island, deftly brings two bleak families into crisp focus. First a Jamaican family, including the well-intentioned Gilbert, who can never manage to say or do exactly the right thing; Romeo Michael, who leaves a wake of women in his path; and finally, Hortense, whose primness belies her huge ambition to become English in every way possible. The other unhappy family is English, starting with Queenie, who escapes the drudgery of being a butcher's daughter only to marry a dull banker. As the chapters reverse chronology and the two groups collide and finally mesh, the book unfolds through time like a photo album, and Levy captures the struggle between class, race, and sex with a humor and tenderness that is both authentic and bracing. The book is cinematic in the best way--lighting up London's bombed-out houses and wartime existence with clarity and verve while never losing her character's voice or story. --Meg Halverson [via]
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A Small Place
by Jamaica Kincaid

ISBN 0374527075 (0-374-52707-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Texaco
by Patrick Chamoiseau, Rose-Myriam Rejouis, Val Vinokurov

ISBN 0679751750 (0-679-75175-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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1992pages. in8. broché. Le troisième roman de Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco (Prix Goncourt 1992), est une ?uvre ambitieuse qui retrace deux siècles d'Histoire martiniquaise à travers le destin d'une fille d'esclave affranchie, célèbre pour avoir fondé le quartier de Texaco à Fort-de France. Le style de Chamoiseau a séduit Milan Kundera, dans un article de la revue l'Infini: Chamoiseau n'a pas fait un compromis entre le français et le créole en les mélangeant. Sa langue, c'est le français, bien que transformé; non pas créolisé (aucun Martiniquais ne parle comme ça) mais chamoisisé. (. )Une oeuvre d'art est un carrefour. Le nombre de rencontres qui y ont lieu me semble être en rapport étroit avec la valeur de l'?oeuvre. [via]
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The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
by Patrick Leigh Fermor

ISBN 0140115137 (0-14-011513-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The account of a journey - by steamer and aeroplane and sailing ship - through the long island chain of the West Indies, and of the idiosyncraticand highly dissimilar civilisation that have sprung up amonst the Caribean Islands. [via]
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The Traveller's Treee: Island-Hopping Through the Caribbean in the 1940's
by Patrick Leigh Fermor

ISBN 1589762487 (1-58976-248-7)
Softcover, Narrative Pr

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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 1416500294 (1-4165-0029-4)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Treasure Island
by Lucy Corvino, Chris Tait

ISBN 1402713185 (1-4027-1318-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price.

Pirates, buried treasure, and action aplenty--that's what's served up in this fine story, mates, and kids will eat it up. After Jim Hawkins finds the map to a mysterious treasure, he sets sail in search of the fortune. Little does he realize he's boarded a pirate ship, and that surprises and danger await him...including a meeting with the inforgettable Long John Silver.
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Treasure Island
by Scott McKowen

ISBN 1402714572 (1-4027-1457-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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- Treasure Island: ISBN 1402714572 (1-4027-1457-2)
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Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys, Charlotte Bronte

ISBN 1568497296 (1-56849-729-6)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

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Excellent book. [via]
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The Wine of Astonishment
by Earl Lovelace

ISBN 0394727959 (0-394-72795-9)
Softcover, Random House, Incorporated

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A powerful and moving chronicle of the different ways in which members of a small Trinidadian community, Bonasse, hold on to their identity as they find themselves caught up in change and corruption. [via]
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- The Wine of Astonishment: ISBN 0435988808 (0-435-98880-8)
  Softcover, Heinemann
- The Wine of Astonishment: ISBN 0394727959 (0-394-72795-9)
  Softcover, Random House, Incorporated

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Ancho Mar De Los Sargazos / Wide Sargosso Sea
by Jean Rhys, Maria Jose Coperias

ISBN 8437616875 (84-376-1687-5)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones

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De Como Las Muchachas Garcia Perdieron el Acento/ How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent
by Julia Alvarez, De Mercedes Guhl

ISBN 1400096944 (1-4000-9694-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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Cuando las hermanas García Carla, Sandra, Yolanda y Sofía y sus padres huyen de la República Dominicana buscando refugio de la persecución política, encuentran un nuevo hogar en los Estados Unidos. Pero el Nueva York de los años sesenta es marcadamente diferente de la vida privilegiada, aunque conflictiva, que han dejado atrás. Bajo la presión de asimilarse a una nueva cultura, las muchachas García se alisan el pelo, abandonan la lengua española y se encuentran con muchachos sin una chaperona. Pero por más que intentan distanciarse de su isla natal, las hermanas no logran desprender el mundo antiguo del nuevo.

Lo que las hermanas han perdido para siempre y lo que logran encontrar se revela en esta novela magistral de una de las novelistas más celebradas de nuestros tiempos. [via]
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  Softcover, Vintage Books

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